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...longest road tunnel in the world. Traffic in the Gotthard Tunnel had increased since 1999 when a fire closed the MontBlancTunnel. The Swiss government said 1.2 million trucks passed through the tunnel last year. A burning truck turned that...

...Officials said temperatures inside the tunnel reached about 1,800 degrees. A similar fire broke out on March 24 in the MontBlanctunnel linking France and Italy. It took more than a week to recover all the bodies from that fire and the tunnel is expected...

...away 23 chalets on Feb. 9 near the ski resort of Chamonix. A month later, a fire that broke out on a truck in the MontBlanctunnel killed 45 people. The cable car was a private one used primarily by employees of the nearby Pic de Bure space observatory...

...existence that it had ever attacked a sovereign country. In 1999, 39 people were killed when fire erupted in the MontBlanctunnel in France and burned for two days. In 2001, three car bombs exploded almost simultaneously in southern Russia...

...Officials said temperatures inside the tunnel reached about 1,800 degrees. A similar fire broke out on March 24 in the MontBlanctunnel linking France and Italy. It took more than a week to recover all the bodies from that fire and the tunnel is expected...

...existence that it had ever attacked a sovereign country. In 1999, 39 people were killed when fire erupted in the MontBlanctunnel in France and burned for two days. In 2001, three car bombs exploded almost simultaneously in southern Russia...

...most tragic tunnel accidents happened in March 1999, when 39 people were killed after a truck caught fire in the MontBlanctunnel between France and Italy. The blaze burned for two days while firefighters tried to reach victims and vehicles trapped...

...most tragic tunnel accidents happened in March 1999, when 39 people were killed after a truck caught fire in the MontBlanctunnel between France and Italy. The blaze burned for two days while firefighters tried to reach victims and vehicles...

...highest peak. The blaze in the MontBlanctunnel, which broke out Wednesday...system. The tunnel operator, MontBlancTunnel and Highway, said about 20...it has been said that the MontBlanctunnel is no longer suited" to heavy...

...curtain of toxic fumes and intense heat hampered the search Saturday for victims of the truck fire that turned the MontBlanctunnel into a death chamber. Firefighters tried to cool the tunnel under Western Europe's highest peak by spraying a...